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Urged Not To Sell Votes At Any Price And To Do Own Thinking
SPEECHES, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND RECORDS SHOULD HELP DECISIONS - EDITORIALS The Leader has in the past raised the point that political campaigns launched among Negroes within two or three weeks before an election, as has been the case in the past few years, do not give enough time for an ample coverage at points where the colored people are seldom reached, and in other cases it does not do justice to those who may need all possible information to vote intelligently. We would make this contention, were it not a fact that organization work among the white citizens in the city and state is carried on the 52 weeks in the year. But notwithstanding the shortness of the campaign period, much has been written and said within the time, and The Leader is urging Negro voters to go to the polls Tuesday and vote the party or the individual candidates of their choice--from decisions made up in their own minds after carefully perusing the literature that has been mailed them, the advertisements that have appeared and are carried in this issue by both the Republican and Democratic organizations, by scrutinizing the records of the respective parties on candidates, and by assimilating, dissecting and digesting the information which they have received through such campaigners as Charles W. Anderson, Republican chairman of the Negro Divison; C. L. Scott, chairman of the FDR Independent Voters' League, in interest of the Republican party, and J A. Moran, Democratic leader, and William Childress, candidate for the State Legislature, in interest of the Democratic party. Much also has been written and said since the August primary about Negroes selling their votes, and the alleged price to be paid in the forthcoming election Tuesday, November 4. We quote from the Kentucky Irish-American of last week, under the caption "High Prices for Negro Vote," as follows: "Republican leaders here are boasting that they expect to gather a huge majority of Negro votes for the Republican ticket and state frankly that they intend to bid high for every purchaseable vote. One prominent Republican stated that his party workers are canvassing now among the poor element in the side streets and alleys, promising a ten-dollar bill for every Negro voter, Young and old who will come out to vote the Republican ticket. This widespread story has shocked the better element among Negro citizens, who at the same time admit that ten dollars is a tempting bribe to poverty stricken people. "Following the August primary, a Negro Republican leader who supported Williams claimed that white Dummit supporters paid $20 to each Williams challenger who would look out of the window when the Dummit majority was being registered. With the high rate of $10 for a single vote in the coming election, the all-time record for election spending may be smashed. All indications point to a field day for the group and district men who will be lavishly spending Republican money for next year, but at the same time will save enough to feather their winter nest. It is not a question of the merits or the authenticity of that contained in above from a liberal Democratic newspaper, whose editor has rung true where the interests of the Negro is concerned, political and otherwise. We know that here and there we have a segment of both Negro and white voters who might sell their vote for a small mess of pottage. It is our purpose, however, to warn against what might be developed into a wholesale selling of votes neither at the behest of Republican nor Democratic leaders, white or Negro. The Leader urges Negroes in Louisville and out in Kentucky not to sell their votes at any price. Voting in Kentucky is a privilege which Negroes have always enjoyed--a trust which in its fullness is denied members of the group in states like Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina, where Negro leaders are sticking out their necks and spending their monies for the privilege of voting in a Democratic primary. More than that--Negroes of Kentucky of any intelligence, who condescend to sell their votes, may easily tear down in a day all that sacrificing, militant leaders of the group took years to build up, through independent movements of 1919 and 1921. The Leader urges that we get up early and go to the polls Tuesday, November 4, and vote--and let that vote be free from the taint of selling it at any price.
CLAYTON, ROBSION, McCANN CHILDRESS AND HENDERSON Certain Negro Democratic leaders have either been fair enough or liberal to the extent that they have attempted to take the blame for not naming a Negro for alderman of the Tenth Ward from Mayor E. Leland Taylor. They say that two other influential Negro leaders went to Mayor Taylor and told him that it would better serve the interest of the Democratic party should no Negro be named as a candidate for alderman. If that is true, it is quite unfortunate and we pity Mayor Taylor whose record otherwise has not been encouraging, and we pity the Negroes whom it is alleged influenced him to follow the course. But anyway, The Leader urges Negroes and the white citizens who believe in fair play to vote for Eugene Clayton for Alderman of the 10th Ward. In this we have no quarrel with those who would be loyal to the party of their choice by voting the straight Democratic ticket. The day has long passed when we would advise Negroes to vote the straight Republican ticket, even with a "yellow dog" on it as a candidate for office. We doubt that Lincoln would want us to do that in this day of our Lord. Neither do we think we should support any man who has little to offer other than the fact that he is a Negro. But Eugene Cayton is something more than a Negro. He is one of Louisville's prized citizens, a man of unquestioned character--a Christian gentleman--quiet and unassuming and yet a man of convictions who has the courage to speak them without making a lot of noise. Clayton did not seek the honor of being the first Negro member of the Louisville City Council. He was asked and gave his consent, when others of the Tenth Ward were not available. The Leader doubts that any other person could have or would have done better their first two years. Those who have used their hammer on Mr. Clayton would have used it on any other Negro. We know the hammer users. Some of them have succeeded in replacing persons they have knocked out of certain places with themselves, and they have done a worse job. John M. Robsion, Jr., is the Republican candidate for Circuit Judge. He is a brilliant young lawyer, the son of Congressman J. M. Robsion of the Ninth District--a true and tried friend of the Negro and a genuine Lincoln Republican. John Jr., is a chip off the "ole" block. His address on Frederick Douglass and his lay-sermon on Jesus Christ--are regarded as masterpieces. C. W. A. McCann is Democratic candidate for Senator from the 37th District, a business man who is well known among Negroes. He campaigned night after night with J. A. Moran and William Childress and has impressed with his sincerity of purpose. Not only has he made practical promises of his own, but he has pledged to team with Childress in getting things done of vital interest to the race should he be elected to the Senate and Childress to the Legislature. Mr. Childress is the Democratic candidate for Representative from the 42nd Di strict to succeed Charles W. Anderson, and Dennis Henderson, well-known attorney, is the Republican candidate. Both are most splendid young men, and good friends. Childress has made a vigorous campaign and has made more friends and more votes. Henderson has done little campaigning but he can be depended upon to do his best whatever the capacity in which he may be placed as a servant of the people. But finally, The Leader's sentiment in regard to Mr. Childress and Mr. Henderson is expressed by the FDR Independent Voters League of Democratic leaning, which in declaring for the Republican Party in this election, says elsewhere in this week's issue of The Leader, in regard to Childress and Henderson, that they are two very fine men, both duly qualified, and that the members of the organization in the 42nd Legislatice District are at liberty to use their own judgment in voting for one or the other of the two Negro candidates on Tuesday, November 4.
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NAACP Petitions United Nations
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G.O.P. LEADERS PREDICT VICTORY An overwhelming victory for the Republican Party in the general election Tuesday, November 4, was predicted by Negro State and City party leaders here this week, as they charged Mayor E. Leland Taylor drove the last of the effective Negro Democrat workers out of the party when he refused to name a colored man on the aldermanic slate. John L. Leake, District Chairman of the Third District Republican organization, said the Republicans will carry Louisville and Jefferson County by "at least 10,000." In an open letter addressed to "fellow-citizens," Charles W. Anderson, Jr., Assistant Commonwealth Attorney and Chairman of the Republican State Campaign, declared Negro voters have to exercise more care in the casting of his vote than any other segment of citizens. Anderson announced William Dixon, Republican candidate for States' Attorney-General, promised to place a Negro assistant in his office at the State capitol. He said Eldon S. Dummit failed to appoint a Negro to the post because of a misunderstanding.
FIGURING OUT THE VICTORY PERCENTAGE [Photo] Colored Chairman John L. Leake, Organization Chairman Edward C. Black, and Magistrate Herman Jorris, are shown figuring a predicted Republican victory percentage in Tuesday's election. Leake puts the majority in Louisville and Jefferson County at 10,000. See advertisement on page 4.
FDR INDEPENDENT [VOTERS?] LEAGUE NEUTRAL ON CHILDRESS AND HENDERSON The F.D.R. Independent Voters' League, headed by C. L. Scott, declared this week that in the organization's fight for "clean government," it could not take the present Democratic organization's slate in the November election. "That, however, does not mean that we have changed our party affiliation, it is only an alternative in the effort to prevent--the election of a political set-up that would hinder rather than help the Negro politically." Added the Independent leader: "Representative Government is our slogan, and the Democratic party in Kentucky has not made an appreciable bid for the Negro vote. We, therefore, are supporting Eldon S. Dummit for Governor and the Republican ticket, most particularly the Board of Aldermen, because to a degree, especially in Louisville, that party has brought the Negro out of the basement, politically speaking, and placed him at least on the first floor." On the matter of the two candidates for the State Legislature, the F.D.R. Independent Voters' League leader said: "In view of the fact that there are two very fine men, both duly qualified to represent the constituents of the 42nd Legislative District, Dennis Henderson, Republican, and William Childress, Democrat, we are giving our membership in the district the liberty to use their own judgment in voting for one or the other of the Negro candidates on Tuesday, November 4.
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Would Wipe Out Segregation
Truman Gets Strong Report
Civil Rights Committee Asks Wiping Out of Discrimination Now
TRAIN KILLS 4 NEAR ANCHORAGE Four young Negroes, two brothers adn two sisters, were killed instantly late Saturday night, October 25, when the automobile in which they were riding and a fast-moving Louisville and Nashville Railroad train met in collision at the Oakland Station Crosisng near Anchorage. The crushed and lifeless body of one of the casualties, Ada Timberlake, was found three blocks from the scene of impact, according to County police. Officials expressed belief the two young couples were struck by the locomotive in a vain attempt to beat it to the crossing. The automobile was carried four blocks by the train which the engineer told police was traveling at the rate of 60 miles per hour. The fireman of the speeding L. & N. engine told Patrolman Carlton of the County police that the engineer could not see the racing automobile. The victims were identified as Raymond Jake Reed, 21; his brother, Isham Thomas Reed, 20, of Chestnut Grove, Ky.; Ada Elizabeth Timberlake, 18, and her sister, Mary Elsie Timberlake, 16, of Ballardsville.
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Urged Not To Sell Votes At Any Price And To Do Own Thinking
SPEECHES, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND RECORDS SHOULD HELP DECISIONS - EDITORIALS The Leader has in the past raised the point that political campaigns launched among Negroes within two or three weeks before an election, as has been the case in the past few years, do not give enough time for an ample coverage at points where the colored people are seldom reached, and in other cases it does not do justice to those who may need all possible information to vote intelligently. We would make this contention, were it not a fact that organization work among the white citizens in the city and state is carried on the 52 weeks in the year. But notwithstanding the shortness of the campaign period, much has been written and said within the time, and The Leader is urging Negro voters to go to the polls Tuesday and vote the party or the individual candidates of their choice--from decisions made up in their own minds after carefully perusing the literature that has been mailed them, the advertisements that have appeared and are carried in this issue by both the Republican and Democratic organizations, by scrutinizing the records of the respective parties on candidates, and by assimilating, dissecting and digesting the information which they have received through such campaigners as Charles W. Anderson, Republican chairman of the Negro Divison; C. L. Scott, chairman of the FDR Independent Voters' League, in interest of the Republican party, and J A. Moran, Democratic leader, and William Childress, candidate for the State Legislature, in interest of the Democratic party. Much also has been written and said since the August primary about Negroes selling their votes, and the alleged price to be paid in the forthcoming election Tuesday, November 4. We quote from the Kentucky Irish-American of last week, under the caption "High Prices for Negro Vote," as follows: "Republican leaders here are boasting that they expect to gather a huge majority of Negro votes for the Republican ticket and state frankly that they intend to bid high for every purchaseable vote. One prominent Republican stated that his party workers are canvassing now among the poor element in the side streets and alleys, promising a ten-dollar bill for every Negro voter, Young and old who will come out to vote the Republican ticket. This widespread story has shocked the better element among Negro citizens, who at the same time admit that ten dollars is a tempting bribe to poverty stricken people. "Following the August primary, a Negro Republican leader who supported Williams claimed that white Dummit supporters paid $20 to each Williams challenger who would look out of the window when the Dummit majority was being registered. With the high rate of $10 for a single vote in the coming election, the all-time record for election spending may be smashed. All indications point to a field day for the group and district men who will be lavishly spending Republican money for next year, but at the same time will save enough to feather their winter nest. It is not a question of the merits or the authenticity of that contained in above from a liberal Democratic newspaper, whose editor has rung true where the interests of the Negro is concerned, political and otherwise. We know that here and there we have a segment of both Negro and white voters who might sell their vote for a small mess of pottage. It is our purpose, however, to warn against what might be developed into a wholesale selling of votes neither at the behest of Republican nor Democratic leaders, white or Negro. The Leader urges Negroes in Louisville and out in Kentucky not to sell their votes at any price. Voting in Kentucky is a privilege which Negroes have always enjoyed--a trust which in its fullness is denied members of the group in states like Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina, where Negro leaders are sticking out their necks and spending their monies for the privilege of voting in a Democratic primary. More than that--Negroes of Kentucky of any intelligence, who condescend to sell their votes, may easily tear down in a day all that sacrificing, militant leaders of the group took years to build up, through independent movements of 1919 and 1921. The Leader urges that we get up early and go to the polls Tuesday, November 4, and vote--and let that vote be free from the taint of selling it at any price.
CLAYTON, ROBSION, McCANN CHILDRESS AND HENDERSON Certain Negro Democratic leaders have either been fair enough or liberal to the extent that they have attempted to take the blame for not naming a Negro for alderman of the Tenth Ward from Mayor E. Leland Taylor. They say that two other influential Negro leaders went to Mayor Taylor and told him that it would better serve the interest of the Democratic party should no Negro be named as a candidate for alderman. If that is true, it is quite unfortunate and we pity Mayor Taylor whose record otherwise has not been encouraging, and we pity the Negroes whom it is alleged influenced him to follow the course. But anyway, The Leader urges Negroes and the white citizens who believe in fair play to vote for Eugene Clayton for Alderman of the 10th Ward. In this we have no quarrel with those who would be loyal to the party of their choice by voting the straight Democratic ticket. The day has long passed when we would advise Negroes to vote the straight Republican ticket, even with a "yellow dog" on it as a candidate for office. We doubt that Lincoln would want us to do that in this day of our Lord. Neither do we think we should support any man who has little to offer other than the fact that he is a Negro. But Eugene Cayton is something more than a Negro. He is one of Louisville's prized citizens, a man of unquestioned character--a Christian gentleman--quiet and unassuming and yet a man of convictions who has the courage to speak them without making a lot of noise. Clayton did not seek the honor of being the first Negro member of the Louisville City Council. He was asked and gave his consent, when others of the Tenth Ward were not available. The Leader doubts that any other person could have or would have done better their first two years. Those who have used their hammer on Mr. Clayton would have used it on any other Negro. We know the hammer users. Some of them have succeeded in replacing persons they have knocked out of certain places with themselves, and they have done a worse job. John M. Robsion, Jr., is the Republican candidate for Circuit Judge. He is a brilliant young lawyer, the son of Congressman J. M. Robsion of the Ninth District--a true and tried friend of the Negro and a genuine Lincoln Republican. John Jr., is a chip off the "ole" block. His address on Frederick Douglass and his lay-sermon on Jesus Christ--are regarded as masterpieces. C. W. A. McCann is Democratic candidate for Senator from the 37th District, a business man who is well known among Negroes. He campaigned night after night with J. A. Moran and William Childress and has impressed with his sincerity of purpose. Not only has he made practical promises of his own, but he has pledged to team with Childress in getting things done of vital interest to the race should he be elected to the Senate and Childress to the Legislature. Mr. Childress is the Democratic candidate for Representative from the 42nd Di strict to succeed Charles W. Anderson, and Dennis Henderson, well-known attorney, is the Republican candidate. Both are most splendid young men, and good friends. Childress has made a vigorous campaign and has made more friends and more votes. Henderson has done little campaigning but he can be depended upon to do his best whatever the capacity in which he may be placed as a servant of the people. But finally, The Leader's sentiment in regard to Mr. Childress and Mr. Henderson is expressed by the FDR Independent Voters League of Democratic leaning, which in declaring for the Republican Party in this election, says elsewhere in this week's issue of The Leader, in regard to Childress and Henderson, that they are two very fine men, both duly qualified, and that the members of the organization in the 42nd Legislatice District are at liberty to use their own judgment in voting for one or the other of the two Negro candidates on Tuesday, November 4.
NAACP Petitions UN
NAACP Petitions United Nations
Document Asks That United States Be Persuaded To Be Just To Own People
G.O.P. LEADERS PREDICT VICTORY An overwhelming victory for the Republican Party in the general election Tuesday, November 4, was predicted by Negro State and City party leaders here this week, as they charged Mayor E. Leland Taylor drove the last of the effective Negro Democrat workers out of the party when he refused to name a colored man on the aldermanic slate. John L. Leake, District Chairman of the Third District Republican organization, said the Republicans will carry Louisville and Jefferson County by "at least 10,000." In an open letter addressed to "fellow-citizens," Charles W. Anderson, Jr., Assistant Commonwealth Attorney and Chairman of the Republican State Campaign, declared Negro voters have to exercise more care in the casting of his vote than any other segment of citizens. Anderson announced William Dixon, Republican candidate for States' Attorney-General, promised to place a Negro assistant in his office at the State capitol. He said Eldon S. Dummit failed to appoint a Negro to the post because of a misunderstanding.
FIGURING OUT THE VICTORY PERCENTAGE [Photo] Colored Chairman John L. Leake, Organization Chairman Edward C. Black, and Magistrate Herman Jorris, are shown figuring a predicted Republican victory percentage in Tuesday's election. Leake puts the majority in Louisville and Jefferson County at 10,000. See advertisement on page 4.
FDR INDEPENDENT [VOTERS?] LEAGUE NEUTRAL ON CHILDRESS AND HENDERSON The F.D.R. Independent Voters' League, headed by C. L. Scott, declared this week that in the organization's fight for "clean government," it could not take the present Democratic organization's slate in the November election. "That, however, does not mean that we have changed our party affiliation, it is only an alternative in the effort to prevent--the election of a political set-up that would hinder rather than help the Negro politically." Added the Independent leader: "Representative Government is our slogan, and the Democratic party in Kentucky has not made an appreciable bid for the Negro vote. We, therefore, are supporting Eldon S. Dummit for Governor and the Republican ticket, most particularly the Board of Aldermen, because to a degree, especially in Louisville, that party has brought the Negro out of the basement, politically speaking, and placed him at least on the first floor." On the matter of the two candidates for the State Legislature, the F.D.R. Independent Voters' League leader said: "In view of the fact that there are two very fine men, both duly qualified to represent the constituents of the 42nd Legislative District, Dennis Henderson, Republican, and William Childress, Democrat, we are giving our membership in the district the liberty to use their own judgment in voting for one or the other of the Negro candidates on Tuesday, November 4.
Whites Set Fire To Home In Atlanta; Police On Detail, But No Arrests
Would Wipe Out Segregation
Truman Gets Strong Report
Civil Rights Committee Asks Wiping Out of Discrimination Now
TRAIN KILLS 4 NEAR ANCHORAGE Four young Negroes, two brothers adn two sisters, were killed instantly late Saturday night, October 25, when the automobile in which they were riding and a fast-moving Louisville and Nashville Railroad train met in collision at the Oakland Station Crosisng near Anchorage. The crushed and lifeless body of one of the casualties, Ada Timberlake, was found three blocks from the scene of impact, according to County police. Officials expressed belief the two young couples were struck by the locomotive in a vain attempt to beat it to the crossing. The automobile was carried four blocks by the train which the engineer told police was traveling at the rate of 60 miles per hour. The fireman of the speeding L. & N. engine told Patrolman Carlton of the County police that the engineer could not see the racing automobile. The victims were identified as Raymond Jake Reed, 21; his brother, Isham Thomas Reed, 20, of Chestnut Grove, Ky.; Ada Elizabeth Timberlake, 18, and her sister, Mary Elsie Timberlake, 16, of Ballardsville.
Given Right To Defend Home
As a fitting tribute to Booker T. Washington Memorial Week, buy Booker T. Washington Memorial half dollars.
Doing nothing for others is undoing for ourselves.